The cleat hitch is a knot for securely attaching a rope to a cleat. The hitch begins with a dead turn around the cleat then continues forming an “8”. The...

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released under load. A cleat hitch is a knot used to secure a rope to a cleat. A line tied with a cleat hitch to a horn cleat on a dock. The line comes...

lockable loops Chinese button knot – a decorative knot Cleat hitch Clove hitch – two successive half-hitches around an object Common whipping – series of knots...

tuck to form the final product of a sailor's hitch. This knot can also serve the purpose of a cleat hitch. There is another variation of the knot with...

blocks tightening the high line and secures it to the deadman with a cleat hitch. The shear legs are put in place. The chair is attached to the endless...

useful for lassoing a piling. Cleat hitch – affixes a line to a cleat, used with docking lines. Clove hitch – two half hitches, used for tying onto a post...

or impossible to untie once tightened. It is made similarly to a clove hitch but with one end passed under the other, forming an overhand knot under...

A turn is one round of rope on a pin or cleat, or one round of a coil. Turns can be made around various objects, through rings, or around the standing...

Practical knots are classified by function, including hitches, bends, loop knots, and splices: a hitch fastens a rope to another object; a bend fastens two...

simplest single-strand stopper knot. A turn is one round of rope on a pin or cleat, or one round of a coil. A whipping is a binding knot tied around the end...

of the halyard is usually attached to the mast at its foot by way of a cleat. It is convention in some places to fasten the main halyard (for the mainsail)...

the gripfid, is used for ply-split braiding. The gripfid has a jamming cleat to pull a cord back through the cord split by the fid's point. Modern fids...

smuggling of the diamonds and everything connected to it go off without a hitch. If something does go wrong, Wint and Kidd (they are never referred to as...

pulled by a team of draft animals often require a twist shackle to be hitched. A clevis hanger consists of one U-shaped clevis and a second V-shaped...

dockline by taking a single turn round a cleat and alternately heaving on the rope above and below the cleat while keeping the tension on the tail. swimhead...

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low-tension lines between the deck and the rig. Although the name clove hitch is given by Falconer in his Dictionary of 1769, the knot is much older,...

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recovery. Look up painter in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Knot List of hitch knots List of knots Husick, Charles B. (2009). Chapman Piloting and Seamanship...

hollow shaft that ends near the point with a vee that acts as a jamming cleat. For ply-split braiding the point separates plies, and another cord is tucked...

workload's resistance tends to make the wheel skid rather than turn, even if cleated. The concept of a shaft drive with easily connected and disconnected couplings...

taillights New rear step-bumper with integrated class III tow hitch Two additional bed cleats New instrument cluster and steering wheel—with all cruise control...

theatrical rigging worlds include: batten, belay, block, bo'sun, cleat, clew, crew, hitch, lanyard, pinrail, purchase, trapeze, and trim. In a typical hemp...

stretched between fixed points, and the lengths of yarn are attached using a hitch called a "railroad sennit". This creates a long, shaggy fringe which, when...

unit-frame tractor. The rear wheels were fabricated steel, spoked and cleated. The earliest ones were 12-spoke; a 14-spoke version followed. Several...

pneumatic rubber tires had displaced cleated steel wheels across roughly half of all tractors sold industry-wide. Cleated steel remained optional equipment...

also hawsepiper. belay 1.  To make fast a line around a fitting, usually a cleat or belaying pin. 2.  To secure a climbing person in a similar manner. 3...

period were carried out, with double wheels and tyres fitted and with cleated tyre chains over these. The doubled wheels used a different wheel from...

of the sail. Traditionally they are secured to the sail with buntline hitches. Since buntlines only have to lift a section of canvas, they can be thinner...